Roberts v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Panola. Tried below before the Hon. A. J. Booty. The indictment charges the appellant with the murder of Henry M. Johnson, in Panola County, on November 18, 1872. The conviction was for murder in the first degree, for which the jury, exercising the .power conferred by the Constitution of 1869, assessed the punishment at imprisonment for life, with hard labor.
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Appeal from the District Court of Panola. Tried below before the Hon. A. J. Booty. The indictment charges the appellant with the murder of Henry M. Johnson, in Panola County, on November 18, 1872. The conviction was for murder in the first degree, for which the jury, exercising the .power conferred by the Constitution of 1869, assessed the punishment at imprisonment for life, with hard labor. The witness Guise, testifying for the State, swore that, some twenty or thirty days before the killing, he had a conversation with the appellant, during the course of which the appellant stated to…
1Opinion of the CourtEctor, P. J.
The defendant was tried and convicted for the murder of one Henry M. Johnson, and his punishment fixed by the jury at confinement in the penitentiary for life.
In responding to the errors assigned, upon which we feel called upon to comment, we will follow the order in which they have been presented by the counsel who have briefed and argued the case for the defendant. The first error assigned is, that the District Court erred “ in overruling defendant’s motion to quash the additional special venire in the case, as shown by defendant’s bill of exceptions.”
As it appears from the bill of…
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